Perhaps we have enough airports around London now, and regional airports such as this, just do not make them viable.For sure, Airlines need a firm base and a good catchment of Customers to make it viable, and certainly an airport that has a future.

Southend has seen some scaling back of flights by Easyjet, Inverness also, Newquay a couple of year ago by several Airlines to London.

Seems to be a trend for smaller regional airports across the UK, to be losing services, and threatened with closure?

Access by public transport was a big failing. I’d have thought Ann Gloag could have done something about that. Then there were limits destinations to travel too and of course the catchment area was small. Even my sister who lives in Hythe would still travel out of LCY.

I think it’s future could lie in GA, short trips to France or Belgium and for freight. It would make a great feeder hub into Brussels from where the likes of DHL operate.